- Name
- Sheriff
- Platform
- Arcade (Platform)
- Developer
- Nintendo R&D1 (Company)
- Publisher
- Nintendo (Company), Taito Corporation (Company), Exidy, Inc. (Company), Far East Video (Company)
- Genre
- Action (Genre), Shoot 'Em Up (Genre), Shooter (Genre), Dual-Joystick Shooter (Genre)
- Theme
- Western (Theme)
Sheriff
1979 arcade shooter by Nintendo where the player must fight sixteen surrounding desperadoes. A precursor to Donkey Kong, it was designed by Genyo Takeda, with assistance from Shigeru Miyamoto, working on his first video game. Possibly the first run & gun shooter, it also introduced the damsel-in-distress trope to gaming as well as continuous background music.